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Meaning and Sense in Different Restrictions of the Subject's Consciousness
The gap between meaning and sense causes inevitable controversies related to the use of these notions in science, both in description of objective reality and the evolutionary processes.
In the process of revealing its subjective reality on the basis of objective evolution-defined principles the subject erroneously alienates it from oneself as object reality. Any notion makes sense, not existing by itself, but only as an association of the defined object with the requirement of the defining subject. The very quantor of existence indicates that a certain object (phenomenon) is represented in the mind/consciousness of a specific subject. Essentially, the consciousness is an inseparable attribute of the subject itself under any kind of restriction (in any frame of reference). In fact it is the thing that detects "the presence" of the subject of perception in a given frame of reference. Then the expression "the object exists" means that the perceiving subject states (witnesses) the fact that a given phenomenon is either represented in a specific subjective reality or accessible to the mind under the specified restriction. By analogy, existence can be defined in relation to the integral subjectness (degree of subject involvement). This means that it has to be manifested in all mental maps constructed as a result of admissible transformations of reference systems (physical, biological, social, etc.) of this subjectness. The limits of a specific subject's consciousness, therefore, coincide with objective restrictions of the subject and subjective realities.
Abstraction of any concept from the subject that generates it practically deprives it of the sense that can be disclosed only as a subject-relevant meaning. It turns into a mere marker of attribute links or just a meaning, thus being similar to the abstraction of the Cheshire Cat's smile from the animal itself. Had that approach not been successfully exercised, the science would have degenerated into a futile abstract game of meanings as cubes, instead of constructing something significant (useful and necessary for the subject).
Classical science implicitly attributes real existence to discrete concepts as "material" expression of the "ideal" world that exists without the subject's participation. In the end, the concepts themselves stand for immediate reality (reality proper) that could be only subjective.
Awareness is reduced to the fact that the limit (definition) of subjective reality changes with development, and "outside" objective phenomena (in relation to the previous restrictions to this reality) become accessible to the consciousness in the context of new restrictions. Then, for a specific subject the thing that defines him from outside, can become tangible as awareness "from inside", as an objective principle determining his behavior, the one he had not been aware of before.
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